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Starting a Private Practice: Yay or Nay?

August 27, 2014
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In this first week of my tenure as a full-fledged professor, I’m going to take a moment to reflect on my time in private practice. In some ways this seems fitting as until this week I have never held a full-time position as an employee. I ran across a question I received awhile back from […]

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Do You Have a Private Practice Partner? Or Go It Alone?

November 1, 2012
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I received a great question from one of my Twitter friends @Elisa9180. She asked: I was wondering if you could give me your opinion on starting a private practice with a partner vs. going it alone! That’s too big a question to answer on Twitter, so it gets its own blog post! There are certainly […]

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Guest Post: The Day My Business Died

October 19, 2011

I’m so excited to introduce you to music therapist, blogger, and boomwhacker extraordinaire Kat Fulton. Kat blogs at Rhythm for Good and runs the San Diego-based private practice Sound Health Music. Her infectious personality shines through her writing and she’s brimming with great ideas. Keep reading to learn more… I’d like to share the three […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 8): Final Considerations

April 27, 2010
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This is it! This week we end our Private Practice 101 series. My hope is that all the information we provided over the past 8 weeks has either helped you now or will help you in your future private practice endeavors. So to finish off our series, some final thoughts and miscellaneous items to think […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 6): 6 Reasons Why Marketing a Business is Like Finding a Spouse

April 15, 2010

We’re nearing the end of our Private Practice 101 series! By now you’ve started to lay down the foundation of your business, from it’s structure to paperwork to getting paid. But it doesn’t matter how strong your business structure and services are…if no one knows about them. Today we start talking about marketing. I’m going […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 5): The Paperwork

April 6, 2010

We are now officially halfway through our Private Practice 101 series! So far, we’ve discussed your purpose and reason for starting a business, finding people to help you on your journey, setting up your business structure, and what it takes to get paid. Today’s topic: Paperwork. In my mind, there’s one reason paperwork exists: it’s […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 4): Show Me the Money!

March 30, 2010

We are now in week 4 of our Private Practice 101 series. We’ve previously covered evaluating why you want to start a practice, determining who needs to be on your business team, and reviewing what types of businesses you can start. And if you go back and re-read those posts, make sure you check out […]

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Private Practice 101 (Week 3): What Type of Business Are You?

March 23, 2010

We are now in Week 3 of our “Private Practice 101” series! So far we’ve talked about determining why you want to start a practice (Week 1) and creating your business team (Week 2). I encourage you to check out the comments sections of the previous posts. There have been some great questions and useful […]

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